A felon accused of kidnapping and raping a young woman walking home after a night out in the Mission district will go to trial after a judge found that “satisfactory evidence to support the belief” he committed the crimes had been presented at a preliminary he... More »
A two-time bank robber who, on release from federal prison, secured work as a guard at a city senior living facility, was found by a San Francisco judge to have perpetrated elder abuse on a vulnerable resident of that facility at a hearing today. Michael Shife... More »
A felon who prosecutors say raped a woman in her mid-twenties making her way home on Valencia Street after a night out will appear in court tomorrow. Kevin Lindsey, 42, offered the victim a ride home but, instead, kidnapped her, took her to a dark alley, and c... More »
A felon who prosecutors say raped a woman in her mid-twenties making her way home on Valencia Street after a night out will appear in court tomorrow. Kevin Lindsey, 42, offered the victim a ride home but, instead, kidnapped her, took her to a dark alley, and c... More »
A man appeared in court today accused of terrorizing bank employees at knifepoint, after he barricaded himself inside a branch and instigated an hours-long standoff with police. Kenneth Jenkins, 66, pleaded ‘not guilty’ to multiple felony counts of false impri... More »
One of the duo accused of an armed robbery spree in San Francisco would still have been in custody for firearms offenses had a federal judge not ignored the pleas of prosecutors and probation officials who argued for a substantially longer sentence than was ha... More »
A man attempting to steal a Tesla parked in a residential driveway became enraged when he couldn’t make it work and violently assaulted and robbed the owner instead, a San Francisco court heard today at a preliminary hearing. Antonio Jones, 56, had been loiter... More »
A robbery parolee found with a shotgun and narcotics during a Civic Center traffic stop, where he ran from police and was arrested at gunpoint, will go to trial after a preliminary hearing concluded today. Kevin Jones, 39, appeared in Department 11 of San Fran... More »
A man who robbed six women in three gunpoint holdups in the Mission and SOMA districts had his crime spree brought to an abrupt end thanks to a quick-thinking victim’s use of the ‘find my iPhone’ feature on her stolen device to guide police to the perpetrator’... More »
The trial of Javonn Allen has unexpectedly collapsed after the public defender’s office was forced out of the case just days before a jury was set to hear opening statements. Allen, 30, is accused of ‘unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor’ with respect to V... More »